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More Than Machines?: The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology (Science Studies) - Softcover

Voss; Laura

 
9783837655605: More Than Machines?: The Attribution of (In)Animacy to Robot Technology (Science Studies)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837655601 ISBN 13: 9783837655605
Verlag: transcript Verlag, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists - and everyone else - can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Laura Voss is a science manager in the Research Strategy Unit of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. With a background in neuro-cognitive, organizational, and occupational psychology, she previously worked as a science and technology studies researcher and as a science manager at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) and for international robotics R&D consortiums at the Technische Universität München.

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We know that robots are just machines. Why then do we often talk about them as if they were alive? Laura Voss explores this fascinating phenomenon, providing a rich insight into practices of animacy (and inanimacy) attribution to robot technology: from science-fiction to robotics R&D, from science communication to media discourse, and from the theoretical perspectives of STS to the cognitive sciences. Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, and backed by a wealth of empirical material, Voss shows how scientists, engineers, journalists – and everyone else – can face the challenge of robot technology appearing »a little bit alive« with a reflexive and yet pragmatic stance.

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Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837655601
ISBN 13 
9783837655605
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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